with friends) in the past seven days, with a further 3% playing cards for money with friends in the past seven days. 5% of 11-16 year olds say they have placed a private bet for money (e.g.11% of 11-16 year olds say they spent their own money on gambling activities in the seven days prior to taking part in the survey.We have also published a press release on this matter. Within each of these schools, one curriculum year group was selected, at random, and, within this year group, one class (two in four schools) was randomly selected and the pupils within this class asked to take part in an online self-completion survey. 124 schools agreed to take part, giving a school response rate of 21%. These results are based on a sample of 2,943 pupils aged 11- 16 across curriculum years 7-11 (S1 – S5 in Scotland) using the Ipsos MORI Young People Omnibus.Ī total of 606 schools were selected, at random, from a sample frame of all Academies and Maintained secondary schools across Great Britain. The findings are taken from the annual Young People and Gambling Survey, conducted in 2019 by Ipsos MORI on behalf of the Gambling Commission. It includes statistics about those forms of gambling that children and young people can legally take part in along with gambling on age restricted products. This publication provides information about young people’s participation in different types of gambling and the prevalence of problem gambling. Additional data sets in this series About this statistical release

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